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The Addicted Self: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Dependency: Addiction, Desire, Culture and Clinical Practice - A Psychoanalytic Approach to Dependency

The Addicted Self: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Dependency: Addiction, Desire, Culture and Clinical Practice - A Psychoanalytic Approach to Dependency

Silva, William Marcos

Paperback

Series: Psychoanalysis Through Time, Book 5

Addiction & RecoveryGeneral PsychologyMental Health

ISBN13: 9798257055294
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 12 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Why do some people develop chemical dependency while most do not? Why does the addict keep using them even knowing they are destroying? And why does simply demanding they stop never working?

This book answers these questions with the rigour of the psychoanalytic tradition - from Freud to Lacan, from Abraham to Winnicott, from Ferenczi to Joyce McDougall - and with the clarity of a clinician who has spent decades listening to subjects in suffering. The Addicted Self is not an abstinence manual, nor a manifesto against drugs. It is a profound investigation into what moves a human being when seeking, in the object of their addiction, what ordinary life fails to offer: completeness, relief, jouissance without mediation, fusion with the lost object.

Organised in five chapters and four supplementary studies, the book covers:

  • The psychoanalytic genealogy of addictions - from Freud and cocaine to the Lacanian re-reading of jouissance and lack.
  • The clinical distinction between obsession and addiction - drive servitude through opposite pathways
  • The neurobiological and psychosomatic foundations of dependency
  • Addiction as a civilizational question - Huxley's SOMA, Gurfinkel's Calibanism, the politics of administered pleasure
  • Passion as a drug - the addictive relationship, bond therapy, and the possible path of psychic elaboration

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